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Helene
Rosenblatt - Flute/Piccolo - Director
Anne
Megan - Oboe/Eng. Horn
Teri Herel -
Clarinet
Joel Winter - Horn
Richard
Kandetzki - Bassoon
HELENE ROSENBLATT, flute -director Blackledge has
performed woodwind quintets since high school. As a freelance musician, she
has performed with The Connecticut Virtuosi Orchestra, the Opera Company of Boston, the Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra, the
Central Massachusetts Symphony, the New England Women’s Symphony, the Lexington
Community Orchestra, and the "Y" Orchestra in New York, and performed on
oboe and flute with the Willimantic(CT) Orchestra. Additionally, she formed, managed, and
played with the Ensemble di Vento (of New York) and the Charles River Chamber
Players(Cambridge,MA). Helene currently performs with the Salmon Brook Trio Plus!,Charter
Oak Flutes, Concerto Winds, Nutmeg Consort subs occasionally with Connecticut Valley Chamber Orchestra, The Farmington Valley Orchestra,
and Beth El Orchestra . Helene received her Masters of Music in Performance
from Boston University and Bachelor of Science in Education from Hofstra.
Helene is a member of Pi Kappa Lambda, the National Music Honor Society. Helene taught
private lessons on Long Island and in the Boston area. For several years
she was Assistant to the Director of The South Shore Conservatory of Music in
Hingham and was responsible for operations in the Duxbury, MA branch. Her
teachers included William Fred Heim, James Pappoutsakis, Christopher Krueger
and Ransom Wilson and masterclass with Marcel Moyse. Helene earns her living
networking computers. She holds a Certificate in Electronics;
CISSP,MCSE;MCNE; ECNE; CNE. In addition to her musical activities Helene enjoys
crafting, gardening and working with Springer Spaniels. She is involved with several
"foster care" rescue volunteer organizations for dogs including POA in
Glastonbury, CT; and the Long Island Springer Spaniel Club Rescue organization. She is a supporter of the National Yiddish Book Center in Amherst Massachusetts and enjoys playing and performing Klezmer and Jewish traditional music.
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Anne Megan, Oboe/English Horn
is the principal oboist of the Eastern Connecticut Symphony
Orchestra. She is also a member of the Coastal Winds and Nutmeg
Chamber Players. For 20 years she was the principal oboist of the
United States Coast Guard Band in which she toured all over the country.
She performed with the Coast Guard Woodwind Quintet for 18 years and played
in the White House for President Clinton. Anne received her BM from
Boston University where she studied with Ralph Gomberg. She also
attended the Eastman School of Music and was a student of Robert Sprenkle.
Her other principal teachers were Humbert Lucarelli and Sarah Lambert Bloom.
Anne is presently a Pre-k to 3rd grade music teacher at the Lisbon Central
School and teaches private oboe lessons in her home.
TERI HEREL, Clarinet is a student of Kalmen
Opperman. She performs professionally with the Blackledge Woodwind Quintet, the Paul
Surapine Clarinet Ensemble, the Hartford Pops Band, the Hamden Wind Symphony, and the
Milford, Westfield, and Northampton concert bands. Previously, Teri has performed with the
Connecticut Repertory Theater, the Windham Theater Guild, the Manchester Musical Players,
and the Manchester Symphony Orchestra. Teri instructs clarinet privately and is a visiting
artist for local high school and college music programs. She has served as an adjudicator
for local music competitions and the Connecticut All State competition. Teri is presently
completing a Master’s degree in clarinet performance at the University of
Connecticut, where she has performed Alvin Etler’s Concerto for Clarinet and
Bernstein’s Prelude, Fugue, and Riffs with the University of Connecticut Wind
Ensemble. She also completed her undergraduate studies at the University of Connecticut,
having received a Bachelor of Science degree in Physics and a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree
in Music. During her undergraduate studies, she was a two year recipient of the Wilma
Elias Scholarship for Music. Teri currently lives in rural Ellington with her husband
where she enjoys organic gardening and edible landscaping as a hobby.
JOEL WINTER, French Horn received his Bachelor
of Music and his Master of Science from Juilliard School of Music. Joel is the former
Principal Horn of the American Philharmonic and the Connecticut Grand Opera Orchestra. He
has also performed with New York Philharmonic, and is a former member of the Denver
Symphony and the Oklahoma City Symphony. Mr Winter has taught at Manhattan School of Music
and SUNY at Purchase. Joel performs with the Waterbury Symphony as well as numerous
chamber and orchestral groups in Connecticut and New York. His "day job" these
days is as a programmer in the financial market area.
RICHARD KANDETZKI, Bassoon is a graduate of
the New England Conservatory of Music, where he studied with Sherman Walt (Principal
Bassoon of the Boston Symphony Orchestra) and Richard Plaster (Contra Bassoon of the
Boston Symphony Orchestra). Richard has performed with a number of groups, including a
stint as the Principle Bassoon of the Orqestra Symphonica Estadual de Sao Paulo, Brazil
during its inaugural season and was for ten years the principal bassoon of the Ridgefield
Symphony. Additionally, Richard has performed with the American Philharmonic at Lincoln
Center, the Greenwich Symphony Orchestra, the Norwalk Symphony Orchestra, and the
Manchester Symphony Orchestra, and with numerous chamber ensembles in New York and
Connecticut. Richard also currently plays with the Connecticut Valley Chamber Orchestra,
and the Music with Friends Chamber Group among others. Richard has his "day job"
managing computer programming for an engineering company.
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